A strategy for redeveloping former U.S. Coast Guard housing in Point Reyes Station was approved by the Marin County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday as the pressure for affordable rentals in West Marin increases amid ranch closures.

A slew of approved deeds and agreements between the county and nonprofit partners readies the paperwork to meet an April funding deadline that could finance most of the development.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.